OpenAI adds API key spend tracking and budget limits

Usage and Spend dashboards and the Admin API now support tracking costs per API key and setting hard monthly spend limits.

Users can set monthly organization or project spend caps, including hard limits that automatically halt traffic when reached
All tracking and spending controls are accessible via the API Platform dashboard and programmatically through the Admin API
OpenAI lowered GPT-5.6 Sol API pricing for the next three months

Developers and organizations using the OpenAI API can now isolate costs by specific applications and prevent accidental overages with hard caps.

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